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Instruction: Compare and contrast a biconditional statement to a conditional statement.

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A conditional statement is a statement that can be expressed as "if P then Q", where P is a hypothesis and Q is a conclusion. A biconditional statement is a statement that can be expressed as "P if and only if Q", where P and Q are both hypotheses or both conclusions. The difference is that in a conditional statement, the hypothesis could be true but the conclusion could be false, whereas in a biconditional statement, the hypotheses and conclusions must both be true for the statement to be true.